Most monitors have HDMI inputs now, so an adaptor shouldn't be required. You will need to get one with speakers built in though, or have some other way of playing the sound from SKY.

Also, if you are getting a basic SKY decoder, it will not have HDMI out (only the MySky HDi and MySky Plus have HDMI). You say you have an HDi already, it must have HDMI, unless you just have the silver MySky.

No, you don't need an HDCP stripper - unless you are planning on recording the output with an HD capture device.

A Monitor with an HDMI input and an HDMI splitter that supports HDCP should do the trick. Jaycar sell them. Or, even better, get a 4x2 matrix splitter - which will let you independently route the the output from the Sky box, a blu-ray player, or whatever to one or both of the TVs simultaneously.

Based on a quick Google search on "hdmi matrix splitter hdcp" there seem to be a large number of matrix splitters that claim to be HDCP compliant. The Jaycar one states that it is - and I hope certainly hope that it works OK as I have one in a heap of components awaiting my Christmas rejig of my setup.

If in doubt, ask them (via email so you have a record), then you can always take it back if it doesn't perform as promised.

I had a look at the Jaycar matrix. I see nothing that tells me it will allow viewing from a HDMI PC monitor. A matrix is like a telephone exchange. It just lets everything through as if it wasn't there.

I'm actually also looking for a splitter, and it appears if it is advertised to work with Blue Ray then it must be HDCP. There are models with the option to lock the EDID and not "pass everything through" (if both TVs are the same resolution), which appears to be to overcome issues with TV detection. But you need to read the splitter specifications to know if it can.

A monitor with DVI *may* support HDCP, and there are HDMI-->DVI cables readily available. If the one you are considering doesn't, it's probably both cheaper and easier to spend a bit extra on one that does than incur the hassle and expense of incorporating HDCP removal into the chain.

HiI have just looked at the specs for my 50inch plasma TV I brought about 3 years ago. It has multiple HDMI inputs but not HDCP. That explains why PS3 gives a black screen on HDMI (I thought it was a faulty cable). It also explains why the Sky box is connected with analog component cables and not HDMI. The practical effect is that I can't view HDMI/HDCP material in full quality digital. I am paying for a level of quality that I can use. That is a bit annoying.

I can't be the only one caught out by this. Is there a local supplier of good HDMI strippers?

dazz1: HiI have just looked at the specs for my 50inch plasma TV I brought about 3 years ago. It has multiple HDMI inputs but not HDCP. That explains why PS3 gives a black screen on HDMI (I thought it was a faulty cable). It also explains why the Sky box is connected with analog component cables and not HDMI. The practical effect is that I can't view HDMI/HDCP material in full quality digital. I am paying for a level of quality that I can use. That is a bit annoying.

I can't be the only one caught out by this. Is there a local supplier of good HDMI strippers?

What brand of TV is it? I haven't seen a TV with HDMI that doesn't support HDCP in probably 5 years. Certainly when I got my Pioneer Plasma in 2006 there was the odd TV then that didn't, but for a newer model I find it almost unbelievable. I'd actually be taking the issue up with the retailer you purchased the TV from because it's not fit for purpose.